Finally Hillary Clinton — she of the curious concussion brought on by fainting due to dehydration — testified before Congress about the Benghazi massacre.

It wasn’t really testimony, it was answering questions.

Or dodging questions.

Hillary waved her arms and proclaimed “what difference does it make” how four Americans were killed at Benghazi by al-Qaida militants (are there any other kind?) and that it is time to move on and ensure it doesn’t happen again.

Fair enough, but if you don’t examine what went wrong, how do you ensure it won’t happen again? Four died who should not have died.

As an aside, Hillary seemed to have a new hairdo for this appearance. I can’t recall any woman, actress, politician, socialite, whatever, with as many alternating hairdos as Hillary displays. Maybe there are psychological reasons for makeovers?

But that’s another issue. Perhaps it’s her chameleon-like persona.

The part of her performance that got me, was when she recalled meeting the families of those slain at Benghazi “and I put my arms around the mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers, sons and daughters” — her voice breaking with fabricated grief.

I thought it was phony and for the cameras.

Whatever else Hillary is — and she’s been one of the more effective performers in the Obama administration — she is also a consummate liar. It could be argued that she cannot help lying, and does it instinctively.

Hubby Bill has a similar characteristic (“It all depends what is, is”).

Can anyone forget Hillary shamelessly telling the world that she was named after Sir Edmund Hillary, conqueror of Mt. Everest, when she was born six years before he made his historic ascent in 1953?

And how about when she was campaigning for the Democratic nomination against Barack Obama, she recalled her plane landing in the Balkans amid sniper fire and mortars, and having to run, ducking for cover to the terminal building?

And all the while there was newsreel films of her being greeted warmly and safely and neither snipers nor cannon fire anywhere around.

It’s possible both the Clintons are incapable of telling the truth, and are far more comfortable with lies. For Bill it was something of a necessity, what with his addiction to cheating on his wife. For Hillary, it may be necessary to lie to herself to enable her to continue living with an adulterous hubby.

The Clintons may have reconciled differences, and now live in amiable separation. But lies have served both of them well in the past, and continue now that Bill is something of a footnote to her career.

Anyway, questions remain unanswered about Benghazi.

While Hillary accepts responsibility, she ignores accountability. Anyway, she’s on her way out as Secretary of State, to be replaced by John Kerry (he of the Silver Star and two Purple Hearts from Vietnam).

Whatever the truth about Benghazi, it slips further away with every hearing.

Benghazi was not America’s finest hour, and everyone knows it.

The cover up, or denial, was motivated by one overriding factor — Benghazi had to be downplayed to ensure Barack Obama would be re-elected. It was relegated to the back-burner of the campaign, because it was a potential time-bomb that threatened the Democratic presidency.

Hillary Clinton's testimony on Benghazi shows she hasn't changed

Finally Hillary Clinton — she of the curious concussion brought on by fainting due to dehydration — testified before Congress about the Benghazi massacre.

It wasn’t really testimony, it was answering questions.

Or dodging questions.

Hillary waved her arms and proclaimed “what difference does it make” how four Americans were killed at Benghazi by al-Qaida militants (are there any other kind?) and that it is time to move on and ensure it doesn’t happen again.

Fair enough, but if you don’t examine what went wrong, how do you ensure it won’t happen again? Four died who should not have died.

As an aside, Hillary seemed to have a new hairdo for this appearance. I can’t recall any woman, actress, politician, socialite, whatever, with as many alternating hairdos as Hillary displays. Maybe there are psychological reasons for makeovers?

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